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Just picked up a ticket in the 5th row close to center for night one, should be a fun time, excited for a real show on live grass!! Pricey, but I don’t feel too bad buying these tickets after buying no tickets all year, still spending way less than usual on concerts. Tough to swing both nights midweek on short notice, but tough to pass up, this venue is 30 minutes from home for me 😁 To anyone considering traveling, be sure to check the CT quarantine list. They mention on the faq that they will be checking where you’re from, and not let you in if you’re from one of the states on the list. The CT quarantine list right now contains most states outside of the northeast US.

Stella Blue was awesome, the majority of the parking lot became quiet for it, a surreal moment.

Eaton announced at the beginning of the show that Barraco was having voice troubles and that Lisa would be singing his parts. I definitely heard Barraco sing a bit in the second set.

Roseland Drive-In 9/4/20 Cold Rain and Snow Cassidy Dire Wolf Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues New Minglewood Blues Jack-a-roe Looks Like Rain Blow Away Bird Song The Music Never Stopped Help on the Way > Slipknot!> Franklin’s Tower Man Smart, Women Smarter Mission in the Rain Drums Space Spanish Jam> Throwing Stones> Morning Dew Satisfaction Sunrise New Speedway Boogie> Nobody’s Fault But Mine> New Speedway Boogie Johnny B. Goode I might have some of the first set mixed up, couldn’t remember the order. It was really good to get out and see the band, they sounded wonderful, they sounded fired up and delivered an amazing performance of every song. No rust on these guys at all considering their last show was in February. Cold Rain and Snow felt so good 🥰. Looks Like Rain and Bird Song were highlights. Help>Slip>Franklin’s found my tender feet begging for mercy, after battering them the entire first set after not seeing a show since November. Mission in the Rain brought on a downpour of light rain, with the crew scrambling to cover stuff up. Throwing Stones was delivered with heartfelt conviction, Morning Dew was perfect. Satisfaction ended with Eaton talking about everyone’s duty to vote, to which Barraco brilliantly interjected as Pigpen “...or you ain’t gonna get no satisfaction.” Sounded great with the Pigpen vocals on there in Satisfaction. Extended encore set, Nobody’s Fault was cool to sneak into New Speedway and smoothly back out, with the band laying out one more fast one at the end on Johnny B. Goode. This venue was good, it felt like a real show, not watered down in the least bit. The event was run really well, people were mostly good about social distancing, but the venue allowed for ample space for people to be out and dancing, and I left everything I could out there pounded into the gravel, it felt so good to dance again❤️❤️

It’s tough to say. The states that didn’t issue the orders were all very slow to catch and now continue to escalate in case load. In CT at the beginning, it was quite scary, and we were glad to comply with the recommendations. My wife is the night nursing manager at the hospital here, and it was 100% full of Covid patients at the peak, besides one unit. She started wearing scrubs to work “in case I have to help out”. Fortunately, she didn’t, and things started to get under control. Raging unchecked, it would have been complete pandemonium at the hospitals and a lot more people would have died. Stressful times here at the house in April and May.

Jerry or Bob for Edmund Fitzgerald? I say Bob. Might have been a good one for Phil, too.

I’ll jump in here with an easy one that DSO has been killing, “Low Spark”. Never really heard it until I saw talk about wanting DSO to do it here on the forum, and after seeing it live a couple times last fall, what a great song, perfect fit for GD music.

I know this is TIGDH, not TIDSOH, but this is one of my favorite recordings I made, two years ago today, at Frontier Field in Rochester, 8/3/18. Had the perfect spot and tremendous sound, made friends with sml that day, along with a few other friends who I hold dear to this day, it was really a splendid show and time. Killer Blow Away 🌬 https://archive.org/details/dso2018-08-03.nak300cp4.flac16

Listening to this source of 7/29/82, sounds great so far. Looking forward to hearing Phil lay out the treachery ☠️ My speakers are safe right now listening to this out in the work truck. Also, thanks for the transfer and letting us hear it😇

Me and Jake heard Estimated Prophet in the grocery store one day when we were shopping for groceries to go see a few shows, was a surprise!!

Me and Jake were scheming briefly about doing the Colorado run, really tough to pull off with the kids at home. Gonna shoot for Black Mountain along with whatever we can pull off up here, less days away from home and we want to see what the hubbub is about Black Mountain 🤗

Went to see Melvin Seals and JGB this past Saturday at the Cap, great time! My first time seeing the full band, the only other time I've seen Melvin was with DSO as his band a couple years ago at the Jubilee. High energy dance tempo all night long, with a few breaks in the onslaught with some slower songs. Great time to break up the winter between fall Northeast and sorting Northeast DSO, usually go into concert hibernation during winter. I would see them again if they are within an hour or so. Local CT Grateful Dead band Stella Blues Band opened up, which was a lovely surprise in how tight they are and well they played.

Congrats and blessings on the new home! Should hopefully be able to hit a handful up this way and Black Mountain over the summer if all goes well.

I'm tossing out 10/18/74, DSO hasn't played it, and that show also contains the greatest recorded video of Grateful Dead history, the magnificent Morning Dew from The Grateful Dead Movie, which features Phil laying out a huge bomb at the apex of the walk up, relishing in the splendor with an enormous, goony grin on his face. Phil makes that Dew really special, in my opinion, with his fills and overall playing, and all the juicy bombs. Either way, I hope you guys get a Dew tonight so Skip can have the pleasure of blasting the audience with some great bombs.

I like this description 🤣🦀⚡️🦀

Agghhh, Samson opener would have had me drooling. Looks like you would have had to dig deep to keep up with this one after those last two marathons. Dylan fest, looks splendid 🤤🤤

Me and Jake were hanging around the other night watching the video 7/8/90, and he pointed out that unusual sequence of Eyes>Estimated, funny to see the band open up the tour with it. Love the Lost Sailor> Saint (no, the other Saint) Stephen curveball, too. Looks wonderful, extra fun and safe travels 😇

Safe travels and fun to all ⚡️⚡️

One of the greatest songs ever, Tony Rice's rendition is the definitive version for me.

Have fun PG, MC and Saint Dilbert, and everyone else going. Enjoy the patties MC, I grew up eating those things, actually was pleasantly surprised to see them at 7-11 a few weeks ago, not too shabby of a snack. Thanks to the Saint for bringing the recording gear, may you get some killer tapes 😀

Listened to this show last night, killer indeed, great second set sequence.

I looked around, only done once by the Grateful Dead, 5/11/80, out of 43 times they played both songs the same night, rare indeed! Also interesting that this setlist also includes Playing in the Band as the next song in the set, same as on 5/11/80. 05/11/80Cumberland County Civic Center - Portland, ME Set 1: Alabama Getaway Promised Land They Love Each Other Cassidy Loser It's All Over Now Easy To Love You Big Railroad Blues Looks Like Rain Don't Ease Me In The Music Never Stopped Set 2: Scarlet Begonias Fire On The Mountain Feel Like A Stranger Terrapin Station Playin' In The Band Drums Black Peter Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad Around And Around Johnny B. Goode Encore: Brokedown Palace

Who me?? 😁 they played a new CT venue this summer, nice location on the water and cool venue, an outdoor brewery, but it was packed chock full to the gills. They're converting a minor league baseball stadium into the Bridgeport amphitheatre, depending on the configuration it could be cool. Love the minor league stadium they play in Rochester, good sound and lots of space. Supposedly this new place will have some kind of membrane roof, not sure if it will be retractable or what, sounds interesting. I see the work in progress from the highway when I drive by. But yes please, a backyard show would be great 😁

Brand new amphitheatre being built in Bridgeport, CT, about a minute off the highway, 5500 capacity, could be a good place.

They played it a few times this fall, their first was at night three of the Capitol Theater run where they filled in for Phil.